Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaven-headed Nationalists rolled a car on to its side and took up positions behind it . |
| 2 | Machine the tape close to its edge , avoiding the cords , stitching along the top and bottom in the same direction . |
| 3 | Take the car back to its owner and kick him … hard ! |
| 4 | head office will then have to channel the results of international marketing research back to its operating subsidiaries . |
| 5 | The rider does n't just lean the bike into the corner — he knocks the machine on to its side , pushing heavily on the right handlebar to turn the front wheel to the left and drop the machine to the right . |
| 6 | We turn a sledge on to its side for shelter , and by the light from our head torches we examine the wound . |
| 7 | A guard tipped a heavy safe on to its side and offered it to us as a seat . |
| 8 | I mean you could never load er , you could never load a hopper down to its plimsoll mark with peat , that was so light and cos you could n't put any more in so you used to have to take it to sea perhaps we we well you would call it half loaded . |
| 9 | It is not possible , however , for a subsidiary to surrender ACT up to its parent company . |
| 10 | The site continued in use as a corn mill up to its acquisition by the Arkell family in 1827 , by then consisting of three corn mills , a malt house and a bakery . |
| 11 | Actually , providing your timing is reasonable , this is not too dangerous , because you will be interrupting the attacking technique close to its source , when it is at its weakest . |
| 12 | This ant spits painful substances at the eyes of any potential trespasser on to its territory , but through slow acclimatization to her presence , the community she studied learnt to accept her presence without fear and therefore without attack . |
| 13 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 14 | While some in the establishment may be asking whether things are not going too far and calling for the floodgates to be closed , as the careers of powerful figures come to an end , the magistrates are determined to see the process through to its conclusion . |
| 15 | Even though both currencies are allowed to fluctuate within the wide 6 p.c. bands not available to other monetary units , the escudo shot right to the ceiling of its band — pushing sterling close to its floor . |
| 16 | The plaintiff sought a declaration that the use of Bridge Road and the section of Medway Road between Bridge Road and its junction up to its junction with Mill Road by heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the premises of the fourth and fifth defendants at the Chatham Dockyard between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. constituted a public nuisance ; an injunction prohibiting the fourth and fifth defendants from causing or permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to or from their premises at Chatham Dockyard to use those roads between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. ; an injunction prohibiting the dock company from permitting heavy goods vehicles to enter or leave the Chatham Dockyard by the Gillingham Gate between those hours ; and a mandatory injunction requiring the dock company to take all steps within its power to prevent the use of those roads by heavy goods vehicles of the fourth and fifth defendants between those hours . |
| 17 | Argan was a great writer and a coherent ideologue of art , an historicist who believed in progress and in the functionalism of art right up to its transmutation into design . |
| 18 | When , with a shout , I jerked my eye back to its hole there was no smoke anywhere , only the necessary building , perfect , even to the irises and the low picket fence that lined its path , before which ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ now stood , with one arm crooked and raised . |
| 19 | Characteristically he uses the imagery of song to point to the highest kind of contemplative experience of God : The Form unfolds a process of definition which comes full circle back to its beginning so that that can be understood in a new way : the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time . |
| 20 | In an embarrassing retreat , the government was forced to withdraw the nuclear power stations from its proposed electricity privatisation during 1989 , in a blow both to its privatisation and nuclear power programmes . |
| 21 | In alarm she struggled to hide her body from the eyes of the young men , and in so doing knocked the vessel on to its side , leaving her and the soapy water on the floor . |
| 22 | In order to avoid any trouble with the Warden 's forces , they decided to give Jedburgh itself a wide berth , so followed Rule Water down to its junction with Teviot at Menslaws , where they camped the night . |
| 23 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 24 | in the middle of which was a palm tree up to its chin |
| 25 | He cut the last of them and followed the red thread back to its source . |
| 26 | I think you will find that it owes it resiliency not to its form of organisation or administrative skills , but to the power of what we call beliefs and the appeal these beliefs have for its people . ’ |
| 27 | Data Connection , too , is playing its price-list close to its chest . |
| 28 | Such experiences of sexual liberation bear witness to the socially constructed ‘ nature ’ of identity with respect both to its contingency and its resilience : on the one hand the self can be and is experienced as radically different in the space of the other ; on the other hand it the extinction of self is the precondition of passing into the ecstasy with and through the other , it is an extinction which has to be replayed over and again as a constitutive part of sexual ecstasy itself . |
| 29 | In his brilliantly perceptive book , ‘ Beyond a Boundary ’ , James traces the history of the modern game back to its inception during the lifetime of Hazlitt ( 1778–1830 ) . |
| 30 | With rain hissing all around it , flowing on its ravaged and transmogrified new flesh of steel and wire and windscreen and rubber , the thing embraced Pearce 's bloody corpse ; crushing the flesh tightly to its chest ; feeling its own new flesh swarming around him , absorbing him , taking him into itself … and growing even larger . |